- COMMON ERRORS:
- adjectives vs. adverbs
- comparing apples to apples "i like the intro of this book more than that book"<-comparing intro to entire book
- dangling modifier subject must be after comma
- incorrect pronouns
- misecellaneous:
- comma splice
- either...or
- neither...nor
- not only...but also
- so...that "need im SO tired i could sleep now"
- missing subject and/or verb
- parallelism->same structure/formatting
- prepositions!
- pronoun-antecedent agreement-what pronoun is referring to personal: he she it we they possessive: his her our their
- subject verb agreement
- wordiness->should be concise, no extraneous language
- VOCAB:
- ambivalent
- apologetic
- benevolent
- cantankerous
- churlish
- conclusive
- corrosive
- decimation
- digression
- disingenuous
- dismayed
- electorate
- emphatic
- erroneous
- erroneous
- esoteric
- fickly/capricious
- flotsam
- hypothetical
- implacable
- impugned
- indignant
- insubstantial
- laconic
- mercurial
- mollified
- phlegmatic
- raiment
- reconnaissance
- robust
- substantiated
- sustenance
- tenable
- wistful
oct 1 2010 ∞
oct 2 2010 +